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Uh no? Every functioning system we have on the planet is hierarchical. And each system has a different degree of effectiveness & success with some being more corrupt than others.

Just dismissing everything as "welp, that's just hierarchical power structures" is dumb.

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There are many working systems that are small enough that they don't need any hierarchy, and function just fine.

Larger systems do require some degree of it, yes. But the ones that have more hierarchy and where it is more rigid, inevitably end up with more of this kind of thing.

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